• Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    FINALLY they’re starting to make clear that this poor kid was picked as a patsy/fall guy because the cops were about to get French Revolution’d for their blatant favoring of the wealthy and extended incompetence. JFC.

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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      6 hours ago

      Why would you pick such a hot guy with such a fuck you attitude though? Dude is a poster boy for how screwed the system is that even someone as wealthy as him couldn’t get coverage.

      Like I never get these patsy claims - who is recruiting for this and how? Why are they so bad at it? Why would they pick such a sympathetic target? Why pick someone with such a clear and obvious motive and then let the media hum and haw about how “the motive isn’t clear”? Why not control the narrative better than this?

      Sorry, I don’t buy it. The cops could easily have planted the gun on the guy even if he did it. That’s what they do. The story still adds up, it just makes a conviction harder to achieve now, which is honestly great news.

    • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      I think it’s not the cops who were scared, but other executives who have done just as much harm, the cops probably just wanted the executives to shut the fuck up.